Mageia 6 is sixth stable release of community driven GNU/Linux distribution which was initially forked from Mandriva Linux. Mageia 6 GNOME edition screens are not that are interesting for people who appreciate beautiful and unique desktop environments. Mageia 6 is shipped with a stock GNOME 3.24 shell with a custom background.
A preview of Mageia 6 GNOME edition |
Distribution Name | Mageia |
Version | 18.2 |
Release date | 17th July 2017 |
Base | Independent |
Desktop Environment | GNOME |
Home page | http://mageia.org/ |
Mageia 6 is shipped with GNOME 3.24.2. Instead customizing GNOME shell, Mageia uses a stock edition. The only difference is a branded wallpaper. |
On very first launch of Mageia 6, a Welcome App is shown. It includes links to various documentations and community support channels. |
Mageia Welcome app has a dedicated section to open/install all commonly used codecs, plugins and packages. It includes proprietary plugins required for streaming common multimedia files. |
Mageia 6 ships GNOME 3.24.2, latest release GNOME shell available at the release time of Mageia 6. |
Application launcher in Mageia 6. It is a typical GNOME shell launcher, nothing interesting. |
Multitasking Overview |
Nautilus file manager. One important difference with predecessors is inside content preview on folders. Look at icon for Pictures folder which includes a few screenshots of Mageia |
GNOME Terminal. Tries to install screenfetch packages using urpmi screenfetch command. But it was complaining that screenfetch package is not available. Did I miss something here? |
Firefox Web Browser |
GNOME Videos - aka Totem Movie Player |
GNOME Music Player. Default Music Player as part of GNOME Desktop |
Rhythmbox Music Player. What is the purpose of using two music players in default installation of an operating system? |
Shotwell image manager |
Eye Of GNOME Image Viewer |
GIMP Image Editor |
LibreOffice Impress. |
System Settings window (aka gnome-control-center) |
When it comes wallpaper selection, mageia has nothing to offer much. It includes default wallpapers from GNOME shell and some branded mageia wallpapers. |
Mageia 6 GNOME edition uses around 900 MB on first startup. Needless to say, it is very high for GNOME shell. I'm feeling so, may be because I don't have much experience with GNOME 3.24.x |
Mageia Control Center is a system administration tool to configure various services in operating system. |
Drakrpm Software Manager is default Software Manager in Mageia 6. It can be launcher either directly or from mageia control center. |
GNOME Maps |
GNOME Cloack |
GNOME Tweak Tool helps to configure different parts of GNOME shell. Beginning from this release, it is an integrated part of GNOME shell itself. |
Global notification cum Calendar applet will also show details of currently playing music file. |
System Menu |
Shutdown Confirmation |